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Bernhard Kowatsch
UN World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator
Director
Description
Bernhard Kowatsch leads the global United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator, which he created in 2015. He has 20 years of deep experience in building and investing in innovation and technology solutions for global companies, UN organizations, and startups.
Under Bernhard’s leadership, the Innovation Accelerator has become the world’s biggest social impact startup accelerator, offering programmes to the broader ecosystem on multiple social impacts and sustainability issues, such as hunger, climate change, primary healthcare, gender equality, and emergency response. He also created the global leading fundraising app, ShareTheMeal, which has delivered over 281 million meals for hungry children worldwide and was named Best App of 2020 by Apple and Google. Before that, he advised global technology and industrial goods companies on new business creation, new product development, and marketing at the Boston Consulting Group.
Bernhard is a social impact thought leader recognized on global stages, including his TED talk ‘The mindset shift needed to tackle big global challenges’, and a regular speaker at conferences like the World Economic Forum, SXSW, XPRIZE, and COP.
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